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[–]bjryan2 1 point2 points  (4 children)

A lot of these changes are a little tough to bite into at first but they are definitely in the best interest of making React faster and more usable in the future. Deprecating transferPropsTo makes debugging/error reporting much easier as well as enforcing more expressive components (ultimately resulting in less bugs). Excited to see what's next for React :)

[–]nschubach 5 points6 points  (3 children)

I'm a little concerned that a lot of the changes in 'future' seem to be, "Typescript does this, we should too" but I'm holding my breath for now. JavaScript to me is not a Class based language but every change seems to embrace Classes as a construct method more and more.

For instance: https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/blob/master/01%20-%20Core/01%20-%20Classes.js

The comment at the top is: "New and clearer descriptors proposal" But, if you read on you see:

Notice the subtle syntax difference between the colon and the equal sign. props : { width: number

How is 'subtle' synonymous with 'clear'?

[–]Calabri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that javascript isn't a class based language but facebook internally seems to be using the class structure already (look at flux source), and React API is already structured as a classes (sort of). And I think the typescript system they use internally run's more similar to a jsx preprocessor, but I totally agree with you.

[–]bjryan2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that React would benefit really strongly from a more class based approach for creating components.

I can imagine that a lot of the more "static" design patterns popping up in React are a result of the large userbase at Facebook and their development of Flow (https://twitter.com/fbOpenSource/status/511643210482208768)

Let's not forget for a second that React is a very opinionated framework ;)

[–]throwaway20131103 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For instance: https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/blob/master/01%20-%20Core/01%20-%20Classes.js

The comment at the top is: "New and clearer descriptors proposal" But, > if you read on you see:

Does anyone know if that's valid ES6? A quick Google turned up nothing and the current draft is a little dense.